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'Something old, something new, something borrowed , something blue'. When and where did the practice of making these offerings to the bride start and why?
 
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I suspect that this is a very old English rhyme from the 18th or early 19th century.

Something old:- Wear Grandma's wedding ring or piece of family antique jewelry; direct link to family ancestry & pedigree.

Something new:- brand-new wedding dress; symbolic of exciting beginning of new relationship.

Something borrowed:- A coat or garment deliberately borrowed from another member of the family to remind the bride that they are there to help her in times of hardship.

Something blue:- a ribbon or garter of blue to wear to the wedding to remind the bride how important fidelity is in a marriage (blue used to be one of the symbols of steadfastness and faithfulness).

There are more lines to this, if I recall, one being 'and put silver in your shoe', or 'here's sixpence for your shoe', meaning be lucky in your future financial prosperity. Wink
 
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Are they 'offerings' exactly? Are you supposed to be given them? Because I just used whatever I had around, pretty much.
Something old: the ring I used for my wedding band was my great-grandmother's tenth anniversary ring, plus I wore the same coins in my shoes that my mother and her mother wore in theirs
Something new: my shoes! (oh, and that was an ordeal unto itself! that was the most difficult part of the whole wedding, I think!)
Something borrowed: my mother-in-law's bracelet
Something blue: my toe-mails were 30th-Anniversary-Trans-Am Blue. Wee!
 
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